dry lake
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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Since 2018, the Salton Sea no longer gets an inflow of fresh water, only agricultural runoff, so it is evaporating and shrinking while the exposed, dry lake bed area is expanding, feeding clouds of particulate.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 15, 2025
Black Rock City Municipal Airport appears in the desert for 13 days each year around festival time, using two runways on the dry lake bed, and then disappears, according to its website.
From Reuters ● Sep. 4, 2023
The seasonally dry lake bed abuts Steens Mountain to the west, with a low ridgeline to the east and miles of parched earth in between.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 5, 2023
From its signature red-colored soil to canyons, dead volcanoes and dry lake beds, the Martian landscape has intrigued humans for generations.
From Salon ● Apr. 25, 2023
He rode miles across dry lake flats and over rocky cerros until he came to a high fence of heavy-gauge steel mesh with three strands of barbed wire across the top.
From "Ceremony:" by Leslie Marmon Silko
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